Institution of Learning (Coursework Sample)

Week 4
Student’s Name
Institution of Learning
Task 1 - The importance of staffing for supporting innovation
A strong correlation exists between sufficient staff-to-client ratios and the rate of innovation. There is need for the management to ensure enough staffing levels for all the departments in an organization. Unfortunately, in many institutions and organizations, the number of clients highly supersedes that of the staff, thereby creating the recent challenges. This also creates a national challenge and inhibits the level of innovation. Therefore, for any country to realize any meaningful innovation measures and development, staffing has to be a priority as it brings several merits and cons. These include:
Improvement of job satisfaction and staff retention
Increasing the clients satisfaction
Reduction in the job errors
Facilitation of reduction in the staff fatigue
Improvement in the clients’ care quality
Development of collaborative and innovative strategies
Stimulation and increase in idea generation, commitment and entrepreneurship. This helps in developing a concept into a more viable activity
Reduction of the aspect of role deficiencies. It ensures that an innovative panel is set up and is entrusted with the performance of critical functions.
Efficiency in solving the technical problems because of the good project management capabilities.
Task 2 - Questions which relate the concept of “Staffing the innovative technology-based organization”
What are the major fascinating tips useful in the project innovation process?
Which are the fascinating work functions that help build up an innovative project?
Task 3 – Possible answers to these questions
There are six important steps in technology-based innovative projects. These stages tend to overlap and recycle. They include the pre-project, project responsibilities and project initiation. Others are project execution, project outcome evaluation, and the project transfer. It is worth noting that each stage involves activities that require different skills and mix of people. The pre-project involves technical project organization and incorporates the efforts of engineers, scientists, and marketers. This helps to further the skills and specialization areas of these personnel. Project responsibilities involve carrying out a feasibility study on the issues arising from pre-project stage. This may include among others, the development concepts and perceptions of customer interests. The project initiation stage basically involves attempts to link the perceived customer perceptions with technical work directions. The project proposal and proposed budgets as well as schedules are written and produced at this stage. Another key input in this stage is the provision of counseling and motivation from the technical professionals to the new project team. Execution entails the managers defending the project and budget’s virtues while evaluation involves comparison of the project’s...